Planning and Control and the Use of Information Technology in Mental Health Care Organizations

View Sample PDF

Author(s): I. J. Baars (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)and G. G. van Merode (Board of Maastricht University Medical Center & Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 6
Source title: Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Nilmini Wickramasinghe (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)and Eliezer Geisler (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch133

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

Purchase

View Planning and Control and the Use of Information Technology in Mental Health Care Organizations on the publisher's website for pricing and purchasing information.

Abstract

This article reports the results of two studies on the use of standard care processes and IT for planning and control of mental healthcare processes. The results give insight in the needed functionalities of IT and planning and control of mental healthcare processes. The first study is a case study in a center for multidisciplinary (mental) youth care. This center implemented care programs and an automated planning tool. We studied the success of this implementation and particularly the fit between the care programs and the planning tool. In the second study we studied the characteristics of ambulant mental healthcare processes and the actual and preferable use of planning and control models and IT.

The IRMA Community

Research IRM

Planning and Control and the Use of Information Technology in Mental Health Care Organizations

Purchase

Abstract

Related Content

IRMA Sponsors